Vision is, I think, the ability to make good estimates, both for the immediate and for the more distant future. Some might feel this sort of striving to be heresy against “One day at a time.” But that valuable principle really refers to our mental and emotional lives and means chiefly that we are notContinue reading “Vision Beyond Today – As Bill Sees It #317”
Category Archives: Reality
Faith Is Action – Grapevine Article May 1977 by H.I.
Act in good ways, and faith will be born of the good that happens RECENTLY, I read a newspaper article in which the writer stated that he could not, of course, will himself to believe. I smiled out of past identification. For most of my life, I tried to find the “truth” and the “meaningContinue reading “Faith Is Action – Grapevine Article May 1977 by H.I.”
Maturity, Frustration & Growth – Grapevine Article By Marvin Block, MD
A topic we often don’t discuss is the importance of how we deal with frustration and the relationship between our response to frustration to our growth and maturity in accepting life as it is. I found this short extract from a much larger Grapevine Article entitled ‘Alcoholism and Alcoholic Anonymous’ written in February 1974 quiteContinue reading “Maturity, Frustration & Growth – Grapevine Article By Marvin Block, MD”
The Broken Pulley – Grapevine Article June 1992 By Mel B.
Some years ago, I realized that much of the great staying power of the AA program is wrapped up in Step Ten: “Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.” In my opinion, this Step suggests the daily practice of Steps Four through Nine and is designed to keep usContinue reading “The Broken Pulley – Grapevine Article June 1992 By Mel B.”
A Bountiful Higher Power – Grapevine Article by Loren S.
Restored to reality—rather than sanity—he finds his true path When I arrived at the rooms, I was broken in innumerable ways in every aspect of my life. I just wanted to learn how to control my drinking and be normal. But as I went to more meetings I soon began to see that everything wouldContinue reading “A Bountiful Higher Power – Grapevine Article by Loren S.”